Skills that can get you hired

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING INSTITUTES (ITIs), the backbone of India’s technical vocational education system, face persistent challenges in skill quality, industry alignment and student employability.

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With 15,000 ITIs and around 25 lakh available seats, only around 12 lakh students enroll in their courses.And out of those enrolled for training, only around 50% get placements. While the demand for well trained students has never ebbed, it has been a challenge to produce quality talent.

Despite the best efforts of the government, the ITIs and the industry to bridge the gap, the core issues remain unresolved. These include inability to attract good faculty, curriculum mismatch with the expectations of the industry, poor proficiency of students in English, limited industry exposure and placement opportunities. With the goal of India to become Viksit Bharat by 2047 and its efforts for Make in India push, it is imperative that there is quantitative and qualitative enhancement of talent output from the ITIs.